His most famous role was as a ship’s cook who turns out to be a former Navy
Seal and thwarts a nuclear attack on the US.

Now it has emerged that Steven Seagal has a secret identity of his own:
brokering meetings about security between senior Russian and American
politicians.

The actor’s status in Hollywood has sagged a bit since Under Siege in 1992,
but in Russia he appears to be startlingly well-connected, so much so that a
delegation from the US Congress has just thanked him for opening doors to
leading Russian officials.